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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Courage.

2. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her mother told them.
(b) She told them.
(c) Her father told them.
(d) Her new husband told them.

3. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His best friend.

4. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) None.
(d) Eight.

5. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?
(a) Her former fiancé.
(b) Salvatore's former fiancé.
(c) Salvatore's mother.
(d) Her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?

2. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?

3. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

4. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?

5. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

4. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

5. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

6. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

7. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

8. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

9. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

10. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

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